Jumpstart With Readings A Workbook for Writers

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Part 1: Developing Your Writing Process and Writing Paragraphs and Essays Chapter 1: Your Writing Process Chapter 2: Writing a Paragraph Chapter 3: Writing an Essay Part 2: Understanding the Sentence Chapter 4: Subjects and Verbs Chapter 5: Coordination Chapter 6: Subordination Chapter 7: Sentence Fragments Chapter 8: Run-on Sentences and Comma Splices Part 3: Understanding Verbs Chapter 9: The Present Tense/Subject-Verb Agreement Chapter 10: The Past Tense Chapter 11: The Perfect Tenses/Active and Passive Voice Chapter 12: The Progressive Tenses Chapter 13: Tense Shifts Part 4: Understanding Pronouns Chapter 14: Pronouns Chapter 15: Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement Chapter 16: Other Pronoun Problems Part 5: Understanding Modifiers and Prepositions Chapter 17: Adjective, Adverbs, and Articles Chapter 18: Using Participles and Infinitives to Describe Chapter 19: Prepositions Part 6: Improving Sentences Chapter 20: Achieving Parallelism Chapter 21: Special Sentence Structure Problems Chapter 22: Varying Sentence Openers Part 7: Spelling Correctly Chapter 23: Spelling Chapter 24: Frequently Confused Words Part 8: Capitalizing and Punctuating Chapter 25: Capitalization and Endmarks Chapter 26: Commas Chapter 27: Apostrophes Chapter 28: Punctuating Direct Quotations Part 9: Reading and Writing in Response to Reading Chapter 29: Reading and Writing Responses to Reading Nikki Giovanni: On Holidays and How to Make Them Work Skip Rozin: Big White Andrew Lam: They Shut My Grandmother's Door Tunku Varadarjan: Baby Names, Big Battles Thomas H. Middleton: Have a Nice Day Langston Hughes: Thank you M'am Michelle M. Ducharme: A Lifetime of Production Elizabeth Stone: For One Teacher, a Lesson about E-Mail and Privacy Ray Hanania: One of the Bad Guys Maya Angelou: The Fight Karen S. Peterson: The Truth About Our Little White Lies Chang-Lin Tien: America's Scapegoats Maria L. Muniz: Back, but Not Home Appendix: The Parts of Speech